[DeTomaso] NPC on this day

[Kirby Schrader]

Chuck,

So..... I guess your trouble making days started early then?
:-))))))

Kirby


On Fri, Aug 12, 2011 at 13:00, <detomasoregistry at gmail.com> wrote:

> Bill,
>
> When I was a kid, (1960's) my elementary school received a teletypewriter.
> We were told we could communicate with another school.
>
> This BIG box was installed in a closet because it made so much noise when
> typing.
> (You old computer guys know what I refer to.)
>
> After the initial rush of kids trying it out, most quickly lost interest.
> I kept at it.  There really was only one "kid" returning our messages
> anyway.  Her name
> was Eliza, or something like that.
>
> She often asked silly, simple questions, and wrote simple relies.
> She didn't know too many swear words either.
>
> Eventually I determined it was not a real person.  So I played with the
> machine that
> responded, pretending it was human, and I got it to make some embarrassing
> mistakes
> like swearing...
>
> Then through random chance I found a combination of characters that would
> make the (other)
> machine back-space, to type XXX's over previous text.  Then I found how to
> advance the
> paper to the next sheet... then faster and faster, until I am sure I got
> the receiving
> machine to zip thru a whole box of paper.  (It would duplicate the response
> on my
> console.)
>
> The next day I got a message from someone new, a real person, I think it
> was someone in
> charge.  He was interested in what I was doing, but also not real happy
> about the paper
> mess I created on his end.
>
> Ah, fond memories.
>
> Chuck
>
>
>
> My history with computers is more mundane & physical:  I had a job in my
> college days
> (1965-67) loading freight trucks at night, and every Thursday was the day
> that the boxes
> of computer cards came through.  Each box was about 50#'s, and there were
> hundreds of
> them.
> ----            My next defining moment was in about 1999, when personal
> computers were
> brand spanking new, and I said, "Who will spend several hundred dollars for
> a computer to
> store recipes, and other such stuff on!"  Ha!!     ---Bill
>
>
>
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